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SILCHAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SILCHAR , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

India, in the See also:

CACHAR, or KACHAR

Cachar See also:

DISTRICT

district of Eastern See also:

Bengal and See also:

ASSAM

Assam, of which it is the headquarters. Pop. (1901) 9256. It is situated on the See also:

LEFT

left See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

RIVER

river Barak, with a station on the Assam-Bengal railway, 271 M. N. of See also:

CHITTAGONG

Chittagong. Silchar is the centre of an important See also:

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, and the headquarters of the volunteer See also:

CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps known as the See also:

SURMA, or BARAK

Surma Valley See also:

LIGHT

Light See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

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